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Shortly after Governor Peter Shumlin took office, he said that he was very surprised that the State Energy Plan included Vermont Yankee operating past March 2012. Now his team has put together a proposal for Vermont without Vermont Yankee: the Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP).
The plan was released by the Department of Public Service (DPS) on Sept. 14. The public comment period ends Oct. 10, less than a month later.
The CEP covers electricity, heating, transmission, and transportation. It is over 600 pages long, including the appendices. The main volume is 368 pages. Less than a month does not give the public much time to review the documents.
Even a cursory review shows some serious flaws.
Last week, Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell announced that he was not filing criminal charges against Entergy. He announced this decision with as much anti-Entergy innuendo as he could manage. While newspapers describe a person caught red-handed as an “alleged” murderer, Sorrell speaks as if he is sure that...
In March, Entergy's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant received a 20-year license extension from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); the NRC extension ends in 2032. Vermont's legislature, however, voted last year to shut down the plant in 2012, when its state certificate runs out. To keep the plant running,
